Posts Tagged ‘stress’
37 Life Lessons
I especially love to celebrate others, but it’s always been harder for me to celebrate myself. However, with the encouragement of family and friends, I’m changing that. I’m allowing myself…
Read MoreThe Cure for Pain is the Pain
“The cure for pain is the pain.” – Rumi The body doesn’t forget. My body tenses and my breath becomes shallow when I feel like something is going to be…
Read MoreUnderstanding and acceptance are not the same thing
It’s impossible to go throughout life without experiencing loss, rejection, failure, heartbreak and adversity on some level. Stressful situations happen to everyone. Some things happen suddenly. We’re heading…
Read MoreWhere I End and You Begin
“Yes” – it’s one simple word, but it’s a word that holds amazing power in our life. Yes to doing the extra work…even if it leads you closer…
Read MoreWhy You Should Care a Little Less
“I’m really struggling with this one class I teach,” my friend told me over lunch. I nodded, knowing how stressful the last year has been for her in…
Read MoreConfront Your Duck
We all complain. Your puppy pees on the carpet for the umpteenth time. Your favorite series airs its final episode. Your laptop crashes and the repair technician…
Read MoreHonor Your Dark
For a while now I’ve had a vision of what it is I want – where it is I want to go in various areas of my life from…
Read MoreHave a good bad day
A bad day is as real as you make it. Really. Think about it for a minute…when is the last time you had a “bad” day? When is the…
Read MoreWhen Nothing Is Working, Trust That Everything Is
“Things falling apart is a kind of testing and also a kind of healing. We think that the point is to pass the test or to overcome the problem, but…
Read MoreChildren Are Our Greatest Teachers: What we can learn about emotions from a five year old
“You are the sky. Everything else–it’s just the weather.” –Pema Chodron The lifespan of any emotion is 90 seconds. When I first came across this statement I was…
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